Latest in Joe Letteri

Weta Digital has brought in Joe Marks as Chief Technology Officer. Hire was set by Weta Digital CEO Prem Akkaraju. Marks has over 35 years in as a technology executive with background in graphics, computer science and research and development. Marks will oversee the company's technology initiatives that span visual…

After a distinguished run as the visual effects house that brought to life Gollum, King Kong and other incredible creatures for Peter Jackson's Middle Earth films and other film spectacles including James Cameron's Avatar sequels and Avengers: Endgame, Weta Digital is making a major expansion. Jackson and Fran Walsh's…

From his earliest beginnings at ILM to his current role as Senior Visual Effects Supervisor at Peter Jackson’s pioneering Weta Digital, four-time Oscar winner Joe Letteri has had the most accomplished of careers, witnessing the stunning evolution of visual effects over the course of three decades. Working on such…

Joe Letteri, who has won four Visual Effects Oscars for two The Lord Of The Rings movies, King Kong and Avatar, will be given the Visual Effects Society’s VES Georges Méliès Award, bestowed for “pioneering significant and lasting contributions to the art and science of the visual effects industry by way of artistry…

Weta Digital has announced that it has gotten underway on the four Avatar sequels that James Cameron will direct for Fox. The Wellington, New Zealand-based visual effects facility built by Peter Jackson to make The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, takes on Cameron’s films after completing The Planet of the A…